Cy sensuit histoire de la tres noble et tres belle nicostrate ou carmete fille du roy yone · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de la tres noble et tres belle nicostrate ou carmete fille du roy yone
Subject: Carmenta; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Latin Language; Nicostrata
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Pallantium; Ancient Rome; Italy; Palatine
Description: This image depicts Nicostrata (who is also known as Carmenta), a woman who was a famous prophetess during her time, holding a scroll of parchment. She is illustrated sitting down on the left side of the image with a group of people standing in front of her. Nicostrata realized that the inhabitants of Pallantium were not well educated or literate, so she decided to give them their own language with their own letters and symbols. This was the Latin language. Nicostrata taught the new letters and language to the people of Pallantium, which is what the illustration depicts.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19856
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19856_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Carmenta; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Latin Language; Nicostrata